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The Three Domains
2019
MArch Architecture: Preliminary Research Project (Year 5)
Regarded as the living centre of our experienced world in phenomenology, the human body once moved in space in a way that was measurable and finite. But now, in post-human present reality, screening devices extend our perceptions beyond the physical boundary of the body, and thus our consciousness becomes digitally nomadicised.
This might suggest that architecture, once designed to respond solely to the organic body, must now also take into consideration the digital-extension of the body that navigates our present reality, enabling the posthuman subject to feel embodied in their built environment.
This preliminary research project therefore identifies 'three domains' of posthuman reality - the human, the natural, and the technological - and analyses their intrinsic temporal systems, in an attempt to later reconcile these domains into an architecture for the digitally-nomadicised posthuman.
Regarded as the living centre of our experienced world in phenomenology, the organic human body once moved in space in a way that was finite. But now in post-human reality, screening devices extend our perceptions beyond the physical boundary of the body, and our consciousness becomes digitally nomadicised.
This project reconciles three domains of posthuman reality through architecture: the human, the natural, and the technological.
The logic of the organic body is formed around a set of totally integrated systems. Investigating these systems reveals the meeting point of multiple biological rhythms in relation to one another.
This parallels the different speeds at play in posthuman reality, and so ideas of posthuman building-as-body emerge - a site where different scales, domains and timeframes operate systematically.
For the posthuman body, digital prostheses like the phone become a window to new levels of spatial experience.
The electronic structure behind these devices is the Printed Circuit Board. By implanting the performativity of the circuit board into a posthuman architecture, space then begins to reinforce our new human-technological identity.
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